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UK media reporting on China is becoming an area of increasing tension in Sino-British ties. China summoned Britain’s ambassador in Beijing on Tuesday to lodge “stern representations” over an “inappropriate” article she wrote defending recent international media coverage on China, the Chinese foreign ministry has said. Caroline Wilson’s article in Chinese was posted on the official WeChat account of the British embassy in Beijing last week, amid already tense relations between Britain and China over issues including Hong Kong, Xinjiang and the media. In the article, Wilson explained why foreign media criticism of the Chinese government did not mean the...
